Southern African Bishops Call for a Tougher Stance on Zimbabwe's President

(18 Dec 08 - RV) Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic continues to spread and has now claimed over 1000 lives since August.
The latest UN figures include a new outbreak of hundreds of cases in Chegutu, near the capital Harare, which has been worst hit by the disease.
The aid agency Oxfam has launched a 4 million pound appeal to tackle the epidemic and acute food shortage in Zimbabwe.
And all this comes as the ruling Zanu-PF party holds its annual conference, with ministers saying the party is "united".
Meanwhile today the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference released a statement calling on the South’s Government to isolate Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe.
The spokesman of the Conference is Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, Archbishop of Durban.
He says South Africa has a crucial role to play in the political impasse and accuses the Government, so far, of lacking in political will...